Arelle® features comparison table

Arelle® is a project providing the XBRL community with an easy-to-use open source platform and toolkit for XBRL. Arelle® is written in Python, licensed under the Apache License. Arelle® has following characteristics:

XBRL functionalities are accessible either from a rich client tool, the Arelle User Interface, or, from the command line, or, as a web server, through REST services. Command line is useful to run heavy tasks, like validation, in batch mode. These interfaces offer agility for integrating XBRL processes into any software architecture.

Arelle is available on Windows (64bits), macOS and Linux platforms.

Arelle is totally driven by taxonomy specifications that are loaded at runtime. As significant result, whenever a new version of a taxonomy or a new taxonomy is released, it is automatically supported by Arelle.

Such properties are very much appreciated but provides very little help to filers when drafting European XBRL reports.

It is the reason why Acsone chose to provide drafting capabilities and specificities to better supporting the European taxonomies designed by the EBA (CRD IV and SRB), the EIOPA (Solvency II and IORP II), the ESMA (ESEF), the Standard Business Reporting or the National Specific Templates. Drafting capabilities are built on XBRL table and presentation linkbase specifications. It works in the same way whatever the taxonomy.

These improvements are Acsone's property.

Hereafter we present native Arelle® project features in comparison with the features added by Acsone.